Dear friends of NCSE,
The creationist lawsuit against the NGSS is back. Plus discouraging
signs from West Virginia, where the treatment of climate in new state
science standards was compromised, but encouraging signs from Wyoming,
where a bill to repeal the ban on adoption of the Next Generation
Science Standards was filed.

Dear friends of NCSE,
NCSE is featured in the new Climate Education and Literacy Initiative.
A creationist lawsuit against the adoption of the NGSS in Kansas is
dismissed. And there is a major new survey on religion and human
origins, plus a preview of The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate
Change.

Dear friends of NCSE,
A new survey casts light on the public's attitudes toward evolution
and toward climate change. A victory for climate science education in
Texas. And a creationist bill is introduced in Brazil.

Dear friends of NCSE,
It's not too late to apply to host the Darwin Day Roadshow. A proposed
set of new state science standards for South Dakota is attracting
opposition from a state senator who favors creationism and climate
change denial. Plus signs of progress on climate science in Texas
social studies textbooks, a new issue of Reports of the NCSE, and
further signs of progress on climate science in Texas social studies
textbooks.

Dear friends of NCSE,
The latest in the battle over climate change in Texas's social studies
textbooks and on the proposed ban on creationism in Scottish schools.
Plus Camille Parmesan and Alan I. Leshner advise the Texas state board
of education to require the correction of errors about climate change
in social studies textbooks under consideration. And congratulations
are in order for Jay Labov.

Dear friends of NCSE,
Ohio's antiscience bill is passed by a committee. Efforts to ban
creationism from Scotland's public schools are under way. And a
preview of Niles Eldredge's Extinction and Evolution.

RSS Syndication

Antievolutionists Say the Darndest Things

Antievolutionists often express outrage over alleged incivility from those who oppose their efforts to evade the establishment clause of the First Amendment. But they have no difficulty in dishing out the abuse themselves. Here is a sample from the Invidious Comparisons thread that documents egregious behavior on the part of the religious antievolution advocates.

IDC advocate Phillip E. Johnson:

Gould’s uncomfortable situation reminds me of the self-created predicament of Mikhail Gorbachev in the last years of the Soviet Empire. Gorbachev recognized that something had gone wrong with the Communist system, but thought that the system itself could be preserved if it was reformed. His democratic friends warned him that the Marxist fundamentalists would inevitably turn against him, but he was unwilling to endanger his position in the ruling elite by following his own logic to its necessary conclusion. Gould, like Gorbachev, deserves immense credit for bringing glasnost to a closed society of dogmatists. And, like Gorbachev, he lives on as a sad reminder of what happens to those who lack the nerve to make a clean break with a dying theory.